Author: Rosenboim, Or

Latvia

Published on 23 May 2024 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 272 pages, 2 x 8pp b/w
144 x 224 x 29 | 410g

A gorgeous, evocative memoir of family, food and migration. As a child, Or Rosenboims knowledge of her family history was based on the food her grandmothers cooked for her round kneidlach balls in hot chicken broth, cinnamon-scented noodle kugel, stuffed vine leaves, herby green rice with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice and aubergine in tomato sauce. She knew that her family had a complex past but it was only reading her grandmothers recipe books after they both died that she began to explore that past for the first time.

The result is a vivid chronicle of displacement and escape, retracing the complex network of journeys her family took from Samarkand and Riga to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in search of safety and a better life, punctuated by